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Premium Content Children steal cars at a higher rate than any other age bracket and are responsible for half of all Queensland robberies, statistics reveal. And Queensland is the only state where the number of car thefts continues to rise, with a 48 per cent increase from 2015 to 2019. Bond University criminologist and former police detective Dr Terry Goldsworthy has labelled Queensland the stolen vehicle capital of Australia and says recidivist juvenile offenders continue to take cars because they know police won t give chase and the courts will not punish them. A vehicle allegedly stolen by juveniles and used to ram a police car. Picture: Alix Sweeney
Townsville teens road rampage leaves police officer with spinal injuries amid astounding spike in car thefts
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The teenagers hours-long rampage saw two police officers suffer head, back and spinal injuries.
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A group of youths who allegedly tried to ram police vehicles in a stolen four-wheel-drive during an hours-long road rampage in Townsville have been taken into custody.
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Six youths are arrested after leading an hours-long road rampage through Townsville in a stolen 4WD
Vehicle theft has fallen nationwide by 5 per cent in the past four years but risen in Queensland by 48 per cent
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Motor vehicle thefts in eight of the worst affected council areas in NSW account for more than a third of the state s total, with the rates more than doubling in some regions.
There were 12,064 motor vehicle thefts recorded across the state in the year to September 2020, compared with 13,554 in the previous 12 months, the latest figures from the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research show.
Canterbury-Bankstown had the highest number of thefts in 2019-20, at 640, followed by the Central Coast, with 600 thefts, and Blacktown, with 590.
In comparison, 24 vehicles were stolen in North Sydney, which had one of the lowest numbers in Greater Sydney.